%0 Journal Article %T A method to assess image quality for Low-dose PET: analysis of SNR, CNR, bias and image noise %A David Townsend %A Jianhua Yan %A Josh Schaefferkoette %A Maurizio Conti %J Archive of "Cancer Imaging". %D 2016 %R 10.1186/s40644-016-0086-0 %X Lowering injected dose will have an effect on PET image quality. In this article, we aim to investigate this effect in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the liver, contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) in the lesion, bias and ensemble image noise %K Low dose %K PET/MR %K PET/CT %K Lung %K Image quality %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5002150/